| Our latest BBC Panorama shows the impact of the financial squeeze on vulnerable people and the harsh truth of what that means for those needing care. In the second episode of #CrisisinCare Alison Holt, BBC social affairs correspondent, shows the consequences of a broken social care system, and the pressures felt across the board as our population ages. Last week’s broadcast of ‘Crisis in Care’ received a raft of media attention, and was raised at PMQs by Marcus Fysh (Yeovil MP) this week. |
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Alison Holt, BBC Social Affairs Correspondent
A closer look at those featured in Crisis in Care and the consequences of increasing pressures on a care system which is meant to look after some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Jean and her 96-year-old husband Owen are moving because their care home, where they have lived for a year, is closing.
“It’s incredibly sad,” says their son-in-law, Nigel. “We thought we’d found the care home from heaven really with the support here, the carers here. We just hope and pray that this is going to be the last change for them.”… Read the full article
★★★★ The Guardian
Crisis in Care: Who Cares? review – the horrors of austerity laid bare
‘This devastating expose met the people in need whose lives are being ruined by government cuts. Anything slashed by two-thirds is no longer fit for purpose.
“Hope I die before I get old,” sang the Who in 1965. What was written in the spirit of nihilistic affectation now sounds, for their generation and the aged cohorts behind them, like a heartfelt prayer.
Crisis in Care: Panorama, episode 1 review: this crucial report laid bare our social care crisis
‘As funds, focus and manpower continue to be sucked into the Brexit vortex, other worsening national imbroglios are sidelined or ignored. The first episode of a profoundly bleak but absolutely necessary two-part Panorama, Crisis in Care (BBC One), highlighted just one of them: the adult social care system on the brink and in dire need of reform after years of austerity...’ Read the full article
Crisis in Care: Who Pays? Tonight on BBC One at 9pm – tune in or watch on BBC iPlayer after.
